Thursday, March 26, 2015

On Wednesday March 25th, Wally Bentt acted as the DJ for a Sock-Hop. Now some may not know what a Sock-Hop is. Well a Sock-Hop or plain old Hop is an informal dance for teen agers. It was commonly held at high schools and other educational institutions, often in the school gym or cafeteria. The term came about because dancers were required to remove their hard-soled shoes to protect the varnished floor of the gymnasium.The music at a sock hop was usually played from vinyl records, and sometimes presented by a disc jockey. Such music was usually 50s and 60s rock, what we now commonly call ‘Classic Rock.’

Did I say Teen Agers! Well we had forty some recycled Teen Agers dancing to tunes like Be-Bop-A-Lula, Hound Dog, Da Doo Run Run, La Bamba, and the Wooly Bully among many more. No we didn’t have a mirror ball, however Wally did have Apple’s iTunes Visualizer playing over the video projector!

Bob & Jeanette Showing Us How!

Dave Cutting a Rug with Pat.

Even the Kids Had Fun!

Just Enjoying the Music.

Ray & Denise . . . Their Last Dance this Season!

After all that jiving, waltzing and plain old dancing going on, we needed a break half way through the evening. So Marj Herbig came up and sold off all of the remaining ice cream bars that she had left over. Those helped us make it through the second half OK.

Larry and Vickie

Mike and Karen

The DJ Gets 2 for 1!

We had some filtering away early to bed, but come the last dance at 10pm with Brook Benton’s “Rainy Night In Georgia” there was still a good crowd squeezing their sweethearts.

Scot . . . Come With Me!

Scot Had a Blast with Lorna!

Awe! Ain't They Cute Together!

Thanks all for coming. That was major fun! We will do more of these next year.

It is always fun to get with friends at the Leisure World Card room - if you can find a table that is:

Many different games going on every night - Mexican Crazy Eight, Rummy Dummy, Joker, Poker just to name a few. But there is one rule "No Whining".... Sometimes a birthday might be celebrated and sometimes we just share a dessert, but mostly we just share our friendship.

Sunday, March 1, 2015

On February 24th, seventeen members of the Red Hat Ladies of Leisure went to the Schlitterbahn on South Padre Island for a Red Hat costume party. Some of the group dressed like the 50's. All attending received a door prize, and Betty Dixon was the lucky winner of a throw!

Poodles on our skirts or jeans and our socks, our painted up saddle (canvas) shoes, and scarves around our neck - what the heck we did had a great time.

Canvas shoes from the "dollar store" was purchased and painted to look like the real saddle shoes.

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